Action hero is riding to the rescue of cryptocurrency

The bar, admittedly, is very low, but in what must surely be the most idiotic bitcoin-related news of the week, we learn that Steven Seagal, the American film actor and producer, has become the official ambassador for Bitcoiin2Gen, a new cryptocurrency launching its initial coin offering. This “news” is announced in a press release seemingly written by an eight-year-old with a thesaurus. It states that as a Zen teacher and healer, Seagal believes that the Buddhist path to contemplation and enlightenment shares “precisely the objectives of the Bitcoiin2Gen to empower the community by providing a decentralized P2P payment system with its own wallet, mining ecosystem and robust blockchain platform without the need of any third party”. Run for the hills.

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